Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender at TADA court in Mumbai on Wednesday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Dutt has withdrawn his application to surrender at Yerwada Jail in Pune which he had filed on Tuesday. Dutt's lawyer informed the court that he wants to withdraw the application. Dutt had expressed fears of being chased by the media and that he faces threat from fundamentalists. Dutt on Tuesday told...
11:29 AM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: A month after Indian Coastguard intercepted a suspicious small ship called MSV Yusufi off the Mumbai coast, what initially seemed to be a case of smuggling, is turning into a major puzzle for the investigating agencies. MSV Yusufi triggered panic last month, when intelligence agencies intercepted suspicious chatter of its crew through banned satellite phones. They were told by their Dubai handler to land at the Colaba coast in...
08:41 AM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: A 19-year-old engineering student's life met a tragic end in Mumbai. His suicide note names two seniors who allegedly ragged him. Engineering student Nitin Padalkar, unable to handle the stress and anguish of being ragged in college, allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a train in Kalyan near Mumbai on May 10. A suicide note recovered along with his body, says, "It has become difficult for me...
12:34 PM, May 13, 2013
Pune: Three years after the February 13, 2010 German Bakery blast killed 17 people and injured over 60, Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig has been convicted by a Pune court on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy. The quantum of punishment to Baig will be announced on April 18. Himayat Baig, the man who provided logistical support for the blast is the only accused arrested in the case so far. He...
12:02 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Pune: Three years after the German Bakery blast killed 17 people and injured over 60, a Pune court come out with a crucial judgement on Monday. It was the first major terror strike in Pune that dented its tag of being a peaceful city. On February 13, 2010, a deadly blast ripped through Pune's famous eating joint German Bakery. Seventeen people died and 64 others were injured. A Pune court...
08:46 AM, Apr 15, 2013
On Thursday, 37 police officials, including 36 constables, were suspended following a sting that showed 15 Kurla policemen accepting bribes for allowing illegal constructions in the area, just days after the Thane building collapse. ...
07:44 PM, Apr 11, 2013
In June 2011, officials of the forest department had complained to the Chief Secretary of Mahraashtra against local NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad. They stated that their officials were forcibly stopped and threatened by Awhad's supporters when they were demolishing illegal encroachments in the same area where the building collapsed. The NCP MLA has, however, defended his action. ...
11:58 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: Thirty-six police constables were suspended after a sting operation exposed the nexus between the policemen and builders. The sting operations, conducted by a social activist, showed 15 policemen accepting bribe to allow illegal constructions in Mumbai's Kurla area. The expose comes a week after an illegal building collapsed in Thane killing 74 people. While the Mumbai Police has initiated an inquiry against the accused policemen, the Maharashtra government has...
11:23 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Mumbai: Thirty-six policemen were suspended after a sting operation showed them accepting bribe to allow illegal constructions in Mumbai's Kurla area. The sting operation, conducted by a social activist, comes in the backdrop of the collapse of an illegal building in Thane which claimed 74 lives. The Mumbai Police has initiated an inquiry against the accused policemen. ...
09:21 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Thane: A week after a building collapsed in Thane's Mumbra area killing 74 people, Network 18 has accessed documents which show that local Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad had prevented the Forest Department from demolishing illegal constructions in the area despite a court order. The documents reveal that the Forest Department had complained to the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra but no action was taken against Awhad. The seven-storey...
03:29 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Thane: Two days after 72 people died and over 60 were injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse in a decade, the police on Saturday arrested two builders, Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, of the illegal building. While one of them was arrested from Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the other was arrested in Thane by the Thane Crime Branch. Earlier in the day, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) completed its...
05:14 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: Forty one people have died in the Thane building collapse and over 60 were injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. The seven-storied, under-construction illegal building collapsed on Thursday evening. The rescue operations are being hampered due to severe shortage of fire stations in the area, sources said. Sources also added that the fire department is ill-equipped to deal with such a massive a building...
11:41 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Forty two people have reportedly died and over 60 have been injured after a seven-storied under-construction illegal building collapsed in Thane on Thursday. According to the Thane Deputy Collector, the dead included nine children and five women and over 30 people have sustained serious injuries in the incident. Reportedly many children are buried under the debris as tuition classes were being held in the building. Thane Police Commissioner KP...
08:11 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Nearly nine people died and over 40 people were injured when an under-construction building in Thane collapsed partially on Thursday evening. The incident took place at 6.30 pm following which fire tenders and medical teams were rushed to the spot. Sources say that many more are feared buried under the debris. Rescue operations are still underway. According to Deputy Collector Manoj Gohad, the building in the Shil Dhaigar locality...
08:33 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Katju, who was criticised for supporting actor Sanjay Dutt, said he will write to President seeking pardon for both him and Zaibunisa. ...
10:51 PM, Mar 27, 2013
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